Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 9:00:00 PM Hammerspace 440 E 63rd St , Kansas City, MO

If you've ever wanted to get into 3D printing, but don't quite know how to get started, then this is the class for you! 3D Printing & Design class, going on every other Saturday at Hammerspace. Learn how to design objects to be printed, as well as how to operate a 3D printer. No prior knowledge required.

Bring your laptop so you can get set up to get started on designing your first 3D creation. 

FYI: There are two ONI 3D printer set up in the HammerSpace 'Big Room' available to members of HammerSpace. 

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 12:00:00 AM Stowers Institute 1000 E 50th St, Kansas City,

This class is for beginners wanting to learn about using WordPress as a framework and content management system for a website or blog. You can arrive knowing nothing about WordPress and will leave knowing how to start up, build and manage a site.

The class spans two days:

Monday 6pm - 9pm and Tuesday 6pm - 9pm

The first hour of the first class will be dedicated to installing WordPress on students' hosting accounts. If you already have WordPress installed on a hosting account, or locally on your computer, feel free to arrive at 7:00 on Monday.

We will cover the following: 

• Intro to Wordpress, Installation, Security, Administration & Management: You'll learn how to install WordPress, gain an understanding of the admin interface and learn of how to manage site content.

• Widgets, Plugins, Themes & Customizing Themes: You'll learn how to install plugins, themes, and widgets to add functionality and change the look of your site. You will also learn how to customize themes and theme frameworks.

The last 30 minutes of class will be one-on-one help for individual issues and any WP topics not covered in class.

Prerequisites: 

All students MUST come to class with at least a WordPress compatible hosting account, preferably with WordPress already installed. If you do not already have WordPress up and running on your hosting account we will install it for you.

If you don't have a hosting account, we will send out an instruction sheet before the class starts so you can prepare your computer to install it locally.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 6:30:00 PM Tomfooleries on the Plaza 612 W 47th Street, Kansas City, MO

LUNCH

Event Date: Tues. 1/31/2017 12:30PM-1:30PM

Location: Tomfooleries (2nd Floor) (Plaza)

It's a new year and a great time for everyone to get together to recharge our marketing/advertising minds! In this new year of change for our group, we will be searching for a new venue as well as time of day and format considerations. We look forward to your attendance at this lunch to catch up with others, network and meet new local marketers/advertising professionals and help us collaborate on another great year of a fantastic group!  

KCSEM events are beneficial for networking with others as well as learning about the ins and outs of online advertising, SEO, PPC, Social Media, Link-building, etc. Attended by Search veterans and newcomers, agency and in-house or those just interested in the industry, KCSEM is a local group allowing us to meet and intellectually grow together!  

Address:

Tomfooleries (2nd Floor)

612 W 47th St.

Kansas City, MO 64112

<a>(816) 753-0555</a>

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 5:30:00 PM Online Event On your computer, Kansas City, MO

This is a free, online event that you can participate in from your computer. To join and get the access link, you must register at https://app.webinarjam.net/register/24710/0145e806eb. If you can't make it, you can still register on that page to get the video recording after the event!  

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There is no shortage of big problems facing humanity, but there is a shortage of ambitious startups trying to solve them. However, more than ever before, entrepreneurs building impact-focused companies can truly change the world.

On this special, online "Demo Day" event, five up-and-coming startups trying to solve some of the world's biggest problems (including water, farming, pollution, and emissions) will present their businesses to a panel of investors for feedback.

Tune in to see presentations from inspirational founders using entrepreneurship to better the world. 

RESERVE A FREE SPOT [limited space]: https://app.webinarjam.net/register/24710/0145e806eb

If you are an investor and want to see presentations from top seed-stage technology companies from across the globe, then be sure to join. 

Or, if you are a startup looking to pitch investors and want to discover what startup investors look for in pitches, this online demo day is your opportunity to learn inside tips and tricks. 

Join us for this online and educational event!

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This is a free, online event that you can participate in from your computer. To join and get the access link, you must register at https://app.webinarjam.net/register/24710/0145e806eb. If you can't make it, you can still register on that page to get the video recording after the event!  

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 2:30:00 PM IBM 11550 Ash Street, Suite 350, Leawood, KS

SEATS ARE LIMITED!!!  PLEASE RSVP to secure your seat!: http://bit.ly/2h7wFV7

IBM is offering a free hands-on lab for clients and practitioners of Apache Spark. This is a full day of education on Spark with hands on exercises instructed in person by Spark experts. The POT will provide a detailed overview of Apache Spark. The exercises will be performed on Jupyter notebooks with publicly available datasets. Participants will use IBM's fully managed free Cloud platform available for educational purposes.

Title:
Hands on Introduction to Apache Spark for Data Engineers, Data Scientist and Developers

Who should go:
Anyone interested in learning more about Apache Spark

Prerequisite:
A working knowledge of Coding (Preferred Python and/or Scala), understand distributed computing, Spark and SQL

What to expect:
Expect to spend a full day of lecture and hands on exercises attacking real-world data challenges using Apache Spark. In 8 hours you will learn the basic essentials of Apache Spark and why it's important to your organization. This workshop will focus on data wrangling and machine learning

You must bring your own laptop!

Full Day Agenda:

8:30am -  9am  Breakfast, Socialize

9:00am -  10:00am  Kickoff, Apache Spark Overview

10:00am - 11:00am  Lab 1, Hello Spark - Hand on exercise

11:00 am – 12:00pm  Apache Spark SQL Overview

12:00 pm – 1pm    Lunch

1pm – 2pm  Lab 2, Spark SQL - Hands on exercises

2pm – 3pm  Overview of Data Science & Machine Learning w/ Apache Spark

3pm – 4pm  Lab 3, Machine Learning w/ Spark – Hands on exercises

4pm – 4:30pm  Wrap up – Feedback from attendees

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 12:30:00 AM C2FO 4210 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Fairway, KS

Piero Ferrante will provide a high level overview covering various aspects of time series analysis in Python. This talk will cover how to work with time series data in Pandas, various filtering and smoothing techniques, outlier/breakout/mean shift detection, interpolation for missing data, and a wide range of simple to sophisticated forecasting techniques.

Piero Ferrante is the Director of Data Science at C2FO and a member of the adjunct faculty at Rockhurst University and the University of Kansas. He also advises a local digital health startup, Play-It Health, on algorithms and data strategy. His areas of expertise include quantitative finance and machine learning.

Matt Habiger will show an example of building a model to find faces in pictures. He will focus on building a dataset, extracting features from images and applying the model. Time permitted, he will show how to take code that was built on a single machine and parallelize it using Spark.

Matt Habiger manages the Data Science and Business Intelligence teams at Pinsight Media. He thinks Spark is amazing and is very focused on building amazing data teams.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 12:00:00 AM Sprint Accelerator 210 W. 19th Terr., Kansas City, MO, Kansas City, MO

Interested in helping the Kansas City area?  Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Meeting Format

6:00 - Social / Networking
6:15 - Kickoff and Introductions 
6:25 - New Member Orientation and Hacking

(7:00 ~ Pizza arrives -- first Mondays only) 
7:45 - Wrap up - get project updates

Location: Community Room on the South side of the building.

Please RSVP so that we know how many snacks & drinks to bring.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a laptop: If you intend on getting some hands-on hacking done (it's ok if you can't but it definitely helps to have one).

On first Mondays, there will be pizza! We'll be getting some 'za from Sizzle Pie, so there will be a vegetarian option.

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for Kansas City has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone.

Connect with Us:

• Join our Code for KC email list.

• Follow us on Twitter @CodeforKC

• Join us on Slack: slackinvite.me/to/codeforkc

Got questions? Email our Brigade Captain, Paul Barham: captain@codeforkc.org.

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